Wonderful use of the Dosy meter, Buddy! I don't know if this is true, but I hear that that particular meter (the circuitry) is not too accurate.
I have the perfect dummy-load to go along with it, if you or anyone else is interested. Here's what you need:
- An old, glass baby-food jar with a metal lid
- An SO-239 or BNC connector
- Some mineral oil
- 2 100-ohm, 3-watt resistors in parallel
- A short run of 50-ohm coax
FIrst, take the lid off the baby-food jar, and then punch out (or drill out) the center of the lid so it can accept your desired connector.
Mount the connector to the lid, with the female portion of the connector on the top of the lid. This is where you'll screw in your coax.
Next, solder the coax to the center/positive connection on the connector, attach the ground of the coax to the lid/connector, and then
solder the other end of the coax to both sides to two paralleled, 100-ohm resistors, making sure that the parallel resistors wind up
centered inside the baby-food jar. Fill up the jar with mineral oil, and then insert the coax and resistors into the mineral oil and screw
down the lid.
When done, what you'll have is a baby Heathkit "cantenna" that should be able to handle around 10-15 Watts or so, but don't push the thing
too hard or you'll wind up letting out the magic smoke
.
73,
Randy AB5NI